POST means "create new" as in "Here is the input for creating a user, create it for me". PUT means "insert, replace if already exists" as in "Here is the data for user 5". You POST to example.com/users since you don't know the URL of the user yet, you want the server to create it.
Please find example below, it might help you
package jersey.rest.test;
import javax.ws.rs.DELETE;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.HEAD;
import javax.ws.rs.POST;
import javax.ws.rs.PUT;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
@Path("/hello")
public class SimpleService {
@GET
@Path("/{param}")
public Response getMsg(@PathParam("param") String msg) {
String output = "Get:Jersey say : " + msg;
return Response.status(200).entity(output).build();
}
@POST
@Path("/{param}")
public Response postMsg(@PathParam("param") String msg) {
String output = "POST:Jersey say : " + msg;
return Response.status(200).entity(output).build();
}
@POST
@Path("/post")
//@Consumes(MediaType.TEXT_XML)
public Response postStrMsg( String msg) {
String output = "POST:Jersey say : " + msg;
return Response.status(200).entity(output).build();
}
@PUT
@Path("/{param}")
public Response putMsg(@PathParam("param") String msg) {
String output = "PUT: Jersey say : " + msg;
return Response.status(200).entity(output).build();
}
@DELETE
@Path("/{param}")
public Response deleteMsg(@PathParam("param") String msg) {
String output = "DELETE:Jersey say : " + msg;
return Response.status(200).entity(output).build();
}
@HEAD
@Path("/{param}")
public Response headMsg(@PathParam("param") String msg) {
String output = "HEAD:Jersey say : " + msg;
return Response.status(200).entity(output).build();
}
}
for testing you can use any tool like RestClient (http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/)
REST webservice: (http://localhost:8080/your-app/rest/data/post)
package com.yourorg.rest;
import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.POST;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
@Path("/data")
public class JSONService {
@POST
@Path("/post")
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public Response createDataInJSON(String data) {
String result = "Data post: "+data;
return Response.status(201).entity(result).build();
}
Client send a post:
package com.yourorg.client;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientResponse;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource;
public class JerseyClientPost {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
Client client = Client.create();
WebResource webResource = client.resource("http://localhost:8080/your-app/rest/data/post");
String input = "{\"message\":\"Hello\"}";
ClientResponse response = webResource.type("application/json")
.post(ClientResponse.class, input);
if (response.getStatus() != 201) {
throw new RuntimeException("Failed : HTTP error code : "
+ response.getStatus());
}
System.out.println("Output from Server .... \n");
String output = response.getEntity(String.class);
System.out.println(output);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
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